The pie graphs compare the percentages of booking methods for English courses in Australia, the USA, and Canada in two separate years: 2009 and 2010. Overall, pre-booking with the agent became more popular in Australia, whereas the same method experienced a downward trend in other surveyed countries. Similarly, but in another country, unspecified methods rose in popularity in Canada, while becoming less used in the remaining nations.
Looking first at the figures for Canada, the majority of English learners, at 45%, arrived in order to book English courses in 2009, followed by around one fourth of those who booked online and in advance with an agent. Unspecified methods were used the least, by only 6% Canadians. In the following year, however, the percentage of pre-booking rose, surpassing that of offline booking, whose proportion decreased to 26% and relatively equalled that of booking on the internet. Other methods became more common, with 18% choosing to use them.
Moving on to the USA and Australia, the four aforementioned methods in both countries accounted for a somewhat relative percentage, each at about 25%. Little changes were seen in America, with Pre-booking increased only by 4% and became the most common method. Meanwhile, Australia experienced greater transformations, with Internet booking and Arrival booking growing to become the most common methods, used by 39% and 30% people. Conversely, the reservation method decreased in popularity, reaching only about one-tenth of the total.